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60th year of independence. ade: 60 years ago in 1957, the british gold coast broke away from centuries of colonial rule. it became the republic of ghana. it was a peaceful transition and ghanas independence, the first to be declared in sub—saharan africa, inspired other states to do the same thing. look carefully around accra and you will see signs of this anniversary year everywhere. this is a really powerful piece of work. it stands at the mausoleum of ghanas independence leader kwame nkruma...

Itjust exists in a different form these days. they have all got individual expressions of pain and it is quite sobering, actually. ghana was right at the centre of the slave trade. its most powerful remnants lie a few hours east of here in the old colonial capital, cape coast, which is where i am going next. it is estimated that in total, around 11 million people were taken from africa, bound for the americas. all along this coastline were forts where men, women and children were held in miserab...

Good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today: more than 50 conservative mps have written to the prime minister, calling for a "clear road map" out of tough coronavirus restrictions. im in warrington, the latest area in england to move into tier 3, the tightest coronavirus restrictions. a study suggests immunity may only

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Our west coast correspondent sophie long reports from arizona. this is the level of some latinos dedication to their president. latinos love trump. aww, thats great. restaurateurs jorge and betty rivas certainly do. he is the right person to keep leading this country. we need someone tough, we need someone with the right ideas. we think that donald trump is the perfect person for another four years. but the threats to their business that followed their endorsement shows that not all latinos feel...

Someone with the right ideas. we think that donald trump is the perfect person for another four years. but the threats to their business that followed their endorsement shows that not all latinos feel the same way. latinos have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic that shut down this state, and while the presidents macho image may have impressed latino men, here in the heart of phoenixs latinx community, it has caused deep offence among those who lost loved ones to the virus. i think...

And devastated by the pandemic. butjoe biden has so far failed to connect with latino voters in the way democratic candidates before him have. our west coast correspondent sophie long reports from arizona. this is the level of some latinos dedication to their president. latinos love trump. aww, thats great. restaurateurs jorge and betty rivas certainly do. he is the right person to keep leading this country. we need someone tough, we need someone with the right ideas. we think that donald trump ...

>> i think thats what marriage is, there are things you agree on and things that you dont and everyone just needs to get alo along. >> a desire to get along thats not found in the data history at rutgers but which detmer says will be essential for the countrys future. so you say in order to address this gender gap men and women will have to try harder to understand each other? >> i think that starts with understanding what is at root in the gender gap. >> at the root, she says in general women f...

>> beto orourke is expected, and even senator ted cruz, and we are having a great turnout. weve gotten a little complace complacent, and thats a general election. weve been doing a lot of work since then, we expect a real fight, and expect to be much closer than traditionally it has been. >> dana: is speaking of close, heres a texas senate race poll, she thinks that its closer, and

Division may be closer to home than we think. theres been a gendered gap in the american politics. >> kelly is with rutgers university and has been studying the gender gap in american politics for years. for the past quarter century, the data for presidential elections shows men as a group almost always favor republicans. and women almost always overwhelmingly favored democrats. so since 1996, if just women were voting for president the democrat would have won the popular vote every single time....